tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post5123972200844551107..comments2024-03-28T02:08:17.990+02:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Conversion III - Bnei Menashe from IndiaDaas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-30247452819123549422008-08-23T00:07:00.000+03:002008-08-23T00:07:00.000+03:00It's time to bring only Jews to Israel.If we don't...It's time to bring only Jews to Israel.If we don't discuss these issues now, within a few years Israel will no longer be the State of the Jews.<BR/><BR/>Seventy percent of emigrants from the Former Soviet Union are not Jewish, the Falash Mura continue to pour in from Ethiopia, Jewish organizations roam the world and bring here quasi-Jews from all sorts of tribes. <BR/><BR/>We returned to our homeland after 2,000 years in exile in order to build a Jewish, Zionist state here, not a Foreign Legionaries country. <BR/><BR/>Israel should institutionalize a mechanism that would examine candidates for aliyah and make sure they are Jewish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-44644276080776106462008-08-22T15:23:00.000+03:002008-08-22T15:23:00.000+03:00"But their businesses and their education mean not..."But their businesses and their education mean nothing when they come to Israel, cultural gaps making it nearly impossible to use them."<BR/><BR/>Why should that be??<BR/><BR/>The educational system on Mizoram is based on the United Kingdom's system, due to nearly a century of British and Christian presences in Burma. <BR/><BR/>Education from kindergarten on is in English. <BR/><BR/>Why would olim from Myanmar be any more disadvantaged than olim from Great Britain or the US who are also Anglophone??<BR/><BR/>"If anyone thinks (based on a post like this) that Mizoram is a poverty-ridden, war-torn country, "<BR/><BR/>This is from the gov't of Mizoram's website:<BR/><BR/>"Poverty Of The People<BR/><BR/>According to Government of Mizoram figure, number of families who are lying Below Poverty Line/Level (BPL) who are in object poverty = 56.07 per cent."<BR/>and <BR/><BR/>"Industry:<BR/><BR/>The entire Mizoram is a notified backward area and is categorised under "No Industry State". The State perhaps, is the most industrially backward state in the country."<BR/><BR/>Then there is the rat based famines that occur every few years. In fact Mizoram is bracing for a famine now because rats have already destroyed the standing rice crops according to the BBC.<BR/><BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6585073.stm<BR/><BR/>More than half of Mizoram's population of nearly 900,000 are farmers.<BR/><BR/>The Mizoram agriculture department anticipates a crop shortfall of at least 75% in 2007-2008 because of farmers not planting. <BR/><BR/>"The rats would wipe out three to four hectares of paddy cropland in one night. We would see our crop standing the night before but next day it would all be gone, eaten away by the rats," said Chaltanga.<BR/><BR/>"When it happened, our people just starved and hundreds of angry young Mizos like me picked up weapons to fight a government that showed no concern for us."<BR/><BR/>Shangra-La???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-88789508293103561132008-08-22T14:54:00.000+03:002008-08-22T14:54:00.000+03:00For the life of me I don't know why the Bnei Menas...For the life of me I don't know why the Bnei Menashe want to convert.<BR/><BR/>After all, look at history. The Khazars were a world power until they became Jewish. Then look what happened.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com